“Trust in scientists grows as fake coronavirus news rises, UK poll finds”

May 6, 2020 | In the news

Out on Daily Permitted Exercise yesterday, our over-friendly pup ran up to a very grumpy older couple, who kicked out at her, shouting ‘It’s been proven that dogs are spreading Covid-19 you know and I’ve got a 96 year old mother’. When I googled later, I found all sorts of whacky, fake news theories, but nothing about the need to Socially Distance from Sybil the Welsh Springer. Anyway. If they believe that, let’s hope they’re not also following Trump’s advice on the curative effects of Domestos or a certain Indian Guru’s on drinking cow urine…

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“The working-from-home illusion fades”

“The working-from-home illusion fades”

Are workers working from home more or less productive than those catching the 7.02am to London Bridge every day? ‘Probably sitting at home in their bleedin’ jim-jams’, said someone recently of a less-than-helpful call centre employee, the assumption being that, were they surrounded by colleagues and with a manager cracking the whip, he or she would have sorted his energy bill more efficiently.